Est. 2019 · Austin, Texas

We Build
the Platform
Under Yours.

GTExpression designs, deploys, and operates the infrastructure layer that modern software teams depend on — Kubernetes, CI/CD, microservices, and managed cloud platforms at enterprise scale.

Cloud-Native Engineering Kubernetes Expert AWS · GKE · Azure Platform Engineering
300+
Production clusters deployed globally
99.98%
Uptime SLA
60+
Enterprise Clients
28
Engineers
Avg Deploy Freq ↑
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Our Story

From Frustration
to Foundation

GTExpression was born in 2019 from a simple, recurring frustration: companies had great application teams and terrible infrastructure. Marcus Webb and Priya Raghavan — battle-hardened from years at Google and Amazon — kept watching the same story unfold across every enterprise they touched.

Engineering orgs investing millions in developer talent, then shipping slowly because nobody owned the platform underneath. The manual deployments. The three-hour on-call rotations caused by a config nobody documented. The Kubernetes cluster that "just worked" until it didn't — and nobody knew why.

They left to fix it. Not as consultants who hand over a slide deck, but as embedded engineers who stay until the platform is production-ready and the team can run it confidently without them.

Today GTExpression operates across three continents, supporting engineering organizations in fintech, healthtech, media, and enterprise SaaS — anywhere teams need to move faster without breaking the things that matter most.

We measure our success by how capable your team is when we leave.

// Mission
Give every team a world-class platform

Regardless of size, budget, or starting point — every engineering team deserves infrastructure that works predictably, scales gracefully, and can be understood by the people who depend on it.

// Vision
Make deployment boring

A world where pushing code to production is as unremarkable as saving a file. Automated, audited, reversible, and invisible to the engineers who just want to ship features.

// Approach
Embed. Build. Transfer. Leave.

We sit inside your team, pair on every decision, document as we go, and hand over a platform your engineers actually understand and own — not a black box, not a dependency on us.

300+
Clusters Deployed

Production Kubernetes clusters across EKS, GKE, and AKS — from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 infrastructure.

99.98%
Uptime SLA

Contractual uptime guarantee backed by 24/7 monitoring, automated alerting, and tested incident response playbooks.

60+
Enterprise Clients

Engineering teams across fintech, healthtech, media, and SaaS — from Series B to publicly listed companies.

Deploy Frequency ↑

Average improvement in deployment frequency clients see within 90 days of a GTExpression CI/CD engagement.

Core Values

What We Stand For

Not posters on a wall. These are the principles that shape every architecture decision, every code review, and every conversation with a client.

01
🔭
Radical Transparency

We document every decision, share our reasoning openly, and never hide complexity behind abstraction. You should always understand what runs under your product — and why it was built that way.

02
⚙️
Engineering Rigor

Infrastructure code gets the same treatment as application code: testing, review, versioning, and linting. We hold IaC to the same standard as the services running on top of it.

03
🏃
Sustainable Speed

Fast delivery that accumulates tech debt isn't fast — it's a high-interest loan. We optimize for long-term velocity, not the appearance of short-term progress.

04
🔐
Security as Culture

Security isn't a checkbox at project end. It's a design constraint applied from day one — woven into every network policy, RBAC role, secrets manager integration, and pipeline scan.

05
🤝
Genuine Partnership

We measure success by what we leave behind. Every engagement ends with your team more capable than when we arrived. Building dependency is easy; building capability takes intention.

06
🎯
Pragmatic Craft

Elegant architecture matters, but shipping matters more. We find the simplest solution to the real problem — resisting over-engineering at every decision point.

Leadership

Engineers First, Always

Our founders and leads come from Google, Amazon, Cloudflare, and HashiCorp. Every partner-level engagement is led by someone who has run production systems at scale.

👨‍💻
Marcus Webb
CEO & Co-Founder
ex-Google SRE · 7 years

Led reliability engineering for GKE's core control plane. Kubernetes upstream contributor since 2017. Designed infrastructure for Google's internal container registry. Speaks fluent Go, YAML, and on-call runbooks.

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👩‍💻
Priya Raghavan
CTO & Co-Founder
ex-Amazon EKS · Principal Eng

Architected Amazon's internal container scheduling platform — a precursor to EKS. AWS Kubernetes Hero 2020. Expert in distributed systems, service mesh topology, and multi-region reliability design.

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🧑‍💻
James Okafor
Head of Platform Eng
ex-Cloudflare · Staff Engineer

Built the CI/CD infrastructure serving 3,400 engineers at Cloudflare's global network. Expert in GitOps, progressive delivery, DORA metric optimization, and release engineering at internet scale.

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👩‍🔬
Sofia Chen
Head of Security Eng
ex-HashiCorp · Security Lead

Designed HashiCorp's Vault integration patterns used in thousands of production deployments. CKSS certified. Author of an open-source OPA policy library with 200+ active enterprise adopters.

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Company Timeline

Built Over Years,
Not Overnight

Q1 2019
Founded in Austin, TX

Marcus and Priya leave Google and Amazon to co-found GTExpression. Thesis: enterprises need embedded platform engineers, not slide-deck consultants. First office: a rented desk in East Austin.

19
20
2020
First 10 Clients · $2M ARR

Grew entirely through word-of-mouth referrals. Hit $2M ARR in 14 months with zero marketing. Expanded to 8 engineers. Launched the EKS Migration Framework adopted by all subsequent AWS engagements.

2021
Multi-Cloud Expansion

Launched dedicated GKE and AKS practices. James Okafor joins as Head of Platform Engineering. Developed proprietary GitOps bootstrapper now deployed across 100% of client engagements.

21
22
2022
Security Practice · Fortune 500

Sofia Chen joins to lead security. Zero-Trust Kubernetes offering launched and immediately adopted. First Fortune 500 engagement — a Tier-1 financial services firm requiring SOC 2 Type II compliant infrastructure.

2023
London & Singapore Open

EMEA hub in London and APAC hub in Singapore launched for global enterprise coverage. Introduced 24/7 managed SLA tiers. Crossed 200 active clusters under management.

23
24
2024
$12M ARR · 300+ Clusters

Crossed 300 production clusters under management. Reached $12M ARR and 28 engineers across three global offices. Launched GTExpression Platform Academy — free Kubernetes training for 4,000+ engineers.

Technology

What We Use

Battle-tested, open-source-first, and chosen for production reliability. Every tool has been proven across dozens of client environments before we recommend it.

Container / Orchestration
  • Kubernetes EKS / GKE / AKS
  • Helm & Kustomize
  • Karpenter / Cluster Autoscaler
  • Istio / Linkerd service mesh
  • Crossplane cloud resources
  • Velero backup & restore
CI/CD & GitOps
  • ArgoCD / Flux
  • GitHub Actions / GitLab CI
  • Tekton Pipelines
  • Argo Rollouts (canary)
  • Skaffold dev loops
  • Sigstore image signing
Observability
  • OpenTelemetry (traces)
  • Prometheus & Grafana
  • Loki / Tempo
  • Datadog / New Relic
  • PagerDuty on-call
  • DORA metrics dashboards
Security & IaC
  • Terraform / OpenTofu
  • OPA Gatekeeper / Kyverno
  • Vault / External Secrets
  • Trivy / Snyk / Falco
  • SBOM generation (Syft)
  • CIS Kubernetes Benchmark
Culture

How We Think

A few things we believe strongly enough to say out loud — and hold each other to.

"The best infrastructure is the kind your developers never have to think about."
// Platform Engineering Principle
01
"If it's not in Git, it doesn't exist. If it's not tested, it doesn't work."
// Engineering Standard
02
"We succeed when you don't need us anymore. That's not a business risk — that's the goal."
// Partnership Principle
03
"Security retrofitted is security theater. Design it in, or admit you don't have it."
// Security Engineering Standard
04
Get In Touch

Let's Build Together

Whether you're containerizing your first monolith or managing a fleet of 200 clusters — we'll meet you where you are.

// Headquarters
Austin, Texas, USA
East 6th Street · 78702
// Global Offices
London · Singapore
EMEA & APAC · Follow-the-sun support
// Email
hello@gtexpression.com
Response within 4 business hours
// Hours
Mon – Fri, 9am – 6pm CT
24/7 on-call SLA for active clients
// Certifications
CKACKADCKSSAWS SA ProGCP ArchitectAzure ExpertAWS DevOps ProTerraform Assoc

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